Charles Fanning Explained

Charles Fanning
Education:	Harvard College University of Pennsylvania
Occupation:	Historian, educator
Spouse:	Frances Fanning
Children:	2

Charles F. Fanning, Jr. is an Irish American historian and academic.

Life

He grew up in Norwood, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1964, with a master's in 1966, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's and doctoral degrees, in 1968 and 1972. He taught at Bridgewater State College, and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1993 to 2007.^{[1] [2]} He and his wife, Frances, live in Carbondale, Illinois.^[3] They have two children, Stephen, born in 1982 and Ellen, born in 1984.

A Medal and Lecture in Irish Studies are named for him.^[4]

Awards

• 1979 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians for Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years
• 1989 American Book Award for The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
• 1991 Prize for Literary Criticism from the American Conference for Irish Studies for The Irish Voice in America
• 2004 Outstanding Scholar, Southern Illinois University Carbondale ^[5]

Bibliography

• Book: The woman of the house: some themes in Irish-American fiction. Irish Studies Program, Northeastern University. 1985 .
• Book: The Irish voice in America: 250 years of Irish-American fiction. registration . Charles Fanning. University Press of Kentucky. 1990. 978-0-8131-1721-8 . (second edition 2000)
• Book: Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years. University Press of Kentucky. 1978. 978-0-8131-1365-4. (reprint 2008)
• Mapping Norwood: An Irish-American Memoir. University of Massachusetts Press. 2010. .

Editor

• Book: Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: the autobiography of a nineteenth-century ethnic group. Finley Peter Dunne. Charles Fanning. Catholic University of America Press. 1987. 978-0-8132-0650-9 .
• Book: The Exiles of Erin: nineteenth-century Irish-American fiction. Charles Fanning. Dufour Editions. 1997. 9780802313157.
• Book: Chicago Stories. registration. James Thomas Farrell. Charles Fanning. University of Illinois Press. 1998. 978-0-252-01981-4.
• Book: New perspectives on the Irish diaspora. Charles Fanning. SIU Press. 2000. 978-0-8093-2344-9 .
• Book: Selected writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America. John V. Kelleher. Charles Fanning. SIU Press. 2002. 978-0-8093-2482-8 .
• Book: No Star Is Lost. James T. Farrell. Charles Fanning. University of Illinois Press. 2007. 978-0-252-07422-6 .
• Book: A world I never made. registration. James Thomas Farrell. Charles Fanning. University of Illinois Press. 2007. 978-0-252-07423-3 .
• Book: The Face of Time. James T. Farrell. Charles Fanning. University of Illinois Press. 2008. 978-0-252-03310-0 .
• Book: Father and Son . James T. Farrell. Charles Fanning. University of Illinois Press. 2008. 978-0-252-07495-0 .
• Book: My Days of Anger. James T. Farrell. Charles Fanning. University of Illinois Press. 2008. 978-0-252-03270-7 .

External links

• "IRISH VOICES", Perspectives, Spring 2004
• Charles Fanning Collection of Audio Recordings, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections

Notes and References

1. Web site: SIUC History Department Faculty . 2009-12-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091027044148/http://history.siuc.edu/faculty/facultyinfo.html . 2009-10-27 .
2. Web site: Charles Fanning to retire from SIUC on Aug. 31 . https://archive.today/20120722122530/http://news.siuc.edu/news/July07/072507amh7072.jsp . 22 July 2012 . dead.
3. Web site: Charles Fanning wins SIUC's top academic honor . https://archive.today/20120719022956/http://news.siuc.edu/news/February04/022504kj4030.html . 19 July 2012 . dead.
4. Web site: SIUC to host regional Irish Studies conference . https://archive.today/20120712121537/http://news.siuc.edu/news/October09/100909amh9180.html . 12 July 2012 . dead.
5. Web site: Charles Fanning wins SIUC's top academic honor . https://archive.today/20120719022956/http://news.siuc.edu/news/February04/022504kj4030.html . 19 July 2012 . dead.